New computing toy - Lenovo X200

[appaji]

The 5 year old IBM Thinkpad T43 that I have been using at work was showing its age: overheating, poor response on disk operations (saving a small file in vi seems to be taking increasingly long times), it doesn't boot sometimes and I have to power cycle it. However, I was putting up with it because the newer T series laptops from Lenovo don't come

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[sajith]

Five years is very good. Much respect for not over-consuming like the regular geek types. ;)

[appaji]

If not for the LCD (which was accidental) I would've used it some more. This geek barely consumes hardware.

[sajith]

It might not be as shhexy as X200, but I have a brand new T400 from work now. And a brand new job too. :) Now what sucks is, only the standard issue Windows XP corporate image is allowed in this machine. Or so I'm told.

[appaji]

I escaped the T400 after the T43 quite narrowly. T400 CPU will have Intel VT so you should run a VM.

btw, I spoke to mullah and he tells me interesting things have been happening in your life. Besides, I have a new GPG key, so we should meet :)

[sajith]

Yes. I'm figuring out Virtualbox. My own R51 has a plain Celeron prior to CPU vm extensions, so I'd never bothered about any of this virtualization business.

I need to talk to the Mullah. And we should meet, but it's going to be a while now. Going to travel on work. :)